Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-09-30
OLYMPIA. WASHINGTON ter.
OLYMPIA, FRIDAY EVENING. sept. 80. 1857
God helps Those who help Themselves

God helps Those who help Themselves
Arise Olympia. shake of the throngs,
Assume heritage that Jy rig4t belongs.
The correspondence signed as"
which appears in another column,
gives fair idea of the systematic mis-
representation our town receives, not
only from the citizens of rival towns,
but often her own people, when they
are thrown in contact with boomers of
other places. 1t seems that they have
not always the courage to tell the
truth, when they are confronted with
the brazcnly impudent assertions OF
town-site spectators, intent upon
making everything subserve their sell
fish purposes. If Tacoma and Seattle
are systematically lauded by their re-
spective adherents while engaged in q
Kilkenny fight between themselves,
they readily make common cause
against Olympia, and never lose an OPP
portunity to give her a stab, even in
the presence of her own citizens, who
sometimes join in the TRADE or silently
acquiesce in what is said in disparage-
ment. Even on our own streets, men
who are making a good living from the
people, frequently growl and grumble
because the progress of Olympia has
been slower than that of her neighbors.
These are not the men who build cit
les. They are not of the class OF indie
fatigible workers who have made it
possible for cities like Seattle and Ia
coma to take the lead. They are not
those active spirits who develop enter
prise, who build brick buildings, who
plan and foster industries that call forth
the latent resources of the community.
Far from it. Still they seem to imag-
inc that if boom should strike Olym-
pia, that they, without any effort OF
their own, would be speedily converted
into millionaires, that the bricks and
mortar would be their own by the sim
pie right Of discovery, and that they
would become nabobs by mere associa-
ton with those who by brain and
Drawn had created the circumstances
that led to progress and prosperity.
Let such shallow thinkers be unde-
ceived. If Olympia should progress,
they would inevitably be left behind.
Let them 60 to any place making
rapid growth, and they would be COM
pe&|ed to stfsin every nerve to get Mto
line with the active current Of life, and
there would be ten chances to one that
they would fall by the wayside before
their journey was fairly begun.
1t may seem like folly to note thit
morbid disposition for iault-fnding, &C
abnormally developed in our commun
ity, nor would we dignity it with q
solemn protest, had it not served 4
give some coloring Of farmers TO the ct
forts of townsite spectators to keel
this community in the background
It serves to substantiate the first thinl
the tourist hears when he registers q
White Elephant hotel in-well, let u
say Rainier-that Tacoma is at tn
head Of navigation; or to the assertion
of the great Terminus and Uniyersit
Site Mover, that Olympia has no hal
Dor. It adds force to the injunction
of the Hillside Queen, when she open
her arms to visitors: "See Rome an
Die" It discourages efforts of thoe
who are seeking to make the most
the God-given resources that but ava
well-directed, persistent energy
place us in line with the progressi,
spirit Of the age. 1t lessons appreci'
ton of the fact that Olympia possesse
to-day, within her grasp, moro of IL
natural elements of greatness tina
any other point on Puget Sound, "
ofttimes fail to realize that we are SUI
rounded by q wide scope of producti'
country that may be made tributary
a city on Budd's Inlet; that we ha'
absolutely the best harbor on Il
coast, of sufficient capacity to shelf
the merchant marine of the world,
that it was selected by the Northel
Pacific Railroad Company for its te
minal point after years of diligent i
vestigation by its best engineers; tn
it Is the nearest and best point (
railroads connecting the Columb
river and Gray's Harbor with Pug
Sound; that the choicest timber C
for the mills is towed from its shore
that the best of coal and iron b
await the advent Of capital and entt
prise to make them living fact0ls
permanent growth, or that we ha
the best of water-power, sufficient
volume to set in motion the machine
of hundreds of factories.
The time has come when OlymI
must fight for her share of the pr
perity that enlivens the whole COUNT
She must put aside timidity. and Dol
ly speak out in her own behalf; and
our neighbors fail to accord us sc
At the table when guests are invit
to the banquet, We must enter unb
den and take a place near its hes
where we properly belong. olive, a
let live," is the policy we prefer; b
live we will despite the machinatio
ofenemies from without, and practic
if not intentional, foes within.
THE Walla Walla Union notes I
fact that strawberries, grown in I